The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

One reads in order to ask questions